Gina Samaan

Datos Biográficos

ID9802995
NOMBREGina Samaan
NOMBRESGina
APELLIDOSamaan
FIRMASAMAAN G
AFILIACIONESWorld Health Organization
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS7
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR7
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2022
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Sovereignty, equity, solidarity

    Open AccessScott F Dowell, Christophe Schmachtel et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BOX The Global Health Emergency Corps (GHEC) offers a novel, structured approach to international crisis response by integrating national, regional and global experts through coordinated networks

  • Preparing for the next respiratory pathogen pandemic

    Open AccessHitesh Chugh, Oluwatosin Akande et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    The Preparedness and Resilience for Emerging Threats (PRET) initiative takes an innovative mode-of-transmission approach to pandemic planning by advocating for integrated preparedness and response systems and capacities for groups of pathogens with common transmission pathways. The World Health Organization (WHO) launched this initiative in 2023 with the publication of PRET Module 1 addressing respiratory pathogens. Exercise PanPRET-1 is a custom…

  • Investing in health preparedness, response and resilience

    Open AccessOluwatosin Akande, Babak Afrough et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    The world has seen unprecedented gains in the global genomic surveillance capacities for pathogens with pandemic and epidemic potential within the last 4 years. To strengthen and sustain the gains made, WHO is working with countries and partners to implement the Global Genomic Surveillance Strategy for Pathogens with Pandemic and Epidemic Potential 2022–2032. A key technical product developed through these multi-agency collaborative efforts is a …

  • Strengthening pathogen genomic surveillance for health emergencies

    Open AccessOluwatosin Akande, Lisa L Carter et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2023

    The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a rapid scale-up in the use of genomic surveillance as a pandemic preparedness and response tool. As a result, the number of countries with in-country SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequencing capability increased by 40% from February 2021 to July 2022. The Global Genomic Surveillance Strategy for Pathogens with Pandemic and Epidemic Potential 2022–2032 was launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March …

  • Multisectoral resilience for the next global health emergency

    Open AccessAmanda Mcclelland, Sulzhan Bali et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2023

  • The World Health Organization's Actions Within the United Nations System to Facilitate a Whole-of-Society Response to Covid-19 at Country Level

    Open AccessGina Samaan, Michelle McPherson et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic highlighted that managing health emergencies requires more than an effective health response, but that operationalizing a whole-of-society approach is challenging. The World Health Organization (WHO), as the lead agency for health within the United Nations (UN), led the UN response at the global level through the Crisis Management Team, and at the country level through the UN Country Teams (UNCTs) in ac…

  • Serving the Vulnerable

    Open AccessMicaela Pereira Bajard, Nicola Stephens et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), created by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in 1991, serves as the global humanitarian coordination forum of the UN s system. The IASC brings 18 agencies together, including the World Health Organization (WHO), for humanitarian preparedness and response policies and action. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the IASC recognized the importance of providing intensified support to countries with confl…